Scheduled presentations:

• Keynote Recently Encountered Issues and Solutions in the Applications of Material Point Methods
  *D. Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. Waters (Los Alamos National Laboratory), K. Perez (Los Alamos National Laboratory), P. Barclay (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• An Explicit Phase-Field Material Point Method for Dynamic Brittle Fracture Problem
  *Z. Zeng (Tsinghua University), X. Zhang (Tsinghua University)
• Understanding Multiscale Interfacial Effects on Architected Composite Responses to Impact Loading with Particle Methods
  *Z. CHEN (University of Missouri)
• Development of an implicit cell-based material point method
  *J. Song (Seoul National University of Sci. and Tech.), H. Kim (Seoul National University of Sci. and Tech.)